We invite you to grow with us in our commitment to art and artists by supporting NIAD's Mobile Art Fund. When you give to NIAD, you help us mend the budget gap created by operating two entirely new models of service - a robust Virtual Studio, and a reinvented onsite program. Because your support means NIAD artists' voices continue to find their audiences, artists' practices diversify and experiment with new models as we meet these challenges.

About the NIAD Mobile Art Fund:

In response to COVID-19, we launched the NIAD Mobile Art Fund to ensure equitable access to art supplies and basic hygiene materials for our artists and their families to use at home. Your financial assistance helps NIAD meet the demands of this rapid pivot to remote programming. A contribution in any amount builds our capabilities to continuously deliver essential services to our artists, without interruption, and eases the transition back to a studio with expanded remote learning capabilities.

NIAD Mobile Art Funds will go towards supporting NIAD's expanded capacity to offer services to all artists, regardless of their access to technology. Your contribution provides:

• direct technical support and training for artists and staff;
• digital tools and visual art materials;
• community well-being supports and services for artists and families; and
• the capacity for NIAD to serve artists both on- and off-site with technology designed to connect, regardless of attendance in our physical building, both now and once the pandemic ends.

Our program redesign presents a huge learning curve, from implementing a virtual front desk to the coordination of daily wellness checks, development and delivery of digital learning content, tech support, and staff professional development.

HEALTHY SNACKS - This year, the Furthur Foundation made a donation to NIAD for seed money to cover a healthy snack program. Each day, NIAD staff and artists make a snack that includes fruit and whole grains, and in place of chips or candy, these are offered in the snack store.

Your donation of $5 helps provide the literal SEED money, for garden plants and basic materials to grow and prepare our own healthy food for the studio. Truly you nourish us!

RECOGNIZE - The NIAD community is defined by our elders and deeply committed members who have been a part of the organization for over 25 years. They include board members like John Ziesenhenne, staff like printmaking instructor Andres Cisneros, and artists like Deatra Colbert.

Your donation of $25 funds a recognition in NIAD's beautiful gardens for our 25+ year community members - truly they are the roots that help us to grow!

PAINTS - Believe it or not, paint is expensive! Did you know, NIAD spends about $5000 annually on paints.

Your donation of $50 helps fill up our paint buckets and provides professional-quality paints for our artists like Marlon Mullen, whose paintings redefined the art world this year!

FRAMES! - Each year, NIAD frames selected work for exhibitions, special projects, or for auctions like the one we had tonight.

Your donation of $150 allows us to present artworks that are professionally framed, raising values for artists' work and providing the recognition they deserve!

TEACHING ARTISTS - NIAD artists are leading workshops in community settings, from libraries to art fairs and festivals, to NIAD's own opening receptions!

$300 provides a stipend for one of our artists to work, supported by NIAD staff, teaching others to do what they do - produce extraordinary contemporary art!

DIGITAL ART - NIAD studio artists have been asking for it for years! In 2021, NIAD will work with new partners to bring digital equipment into NIAD's studio programs.

Your donation of $800 will provide all the incidentals - cords, screens, printers, speakers - to bring tech projects to life. We couldn't do it without these items - or you!

We'd love to include your name on the wall of our tech lab in the NIAD studios.

EXHIBITIONS - Each year, NIAD produces between 24-50 exhibitions in our Richmond storefront galleries, featuring the work of artists from NIAD, Richmond, the Bay Area, and beyond. Shows are organized by artists, writers, cultural producers, and friends of NIAD with the caveat that at least one work from NIAD's inventory must be included.

Your donation of $1500 produces an entire month of exhibitions at NIAD, with a minimum of $400 funding the work of local curators and organizers in NIAD's Art World network.

FIELD TRIPS - Each week, NIAD artists and staff visit museums, galleries, art schools and departments, studios, and get into nature to draw and explore.

Your donation of $2500 provides a budget for three days a week of field trips for six months - two of these donations will fund an entire year of outings!

STUDIO TABLES - If you'd like to be the sponsor who takes NIAD above and beyond our goal for 2020, please be our guest!

Select this item to donate $3000 for replacement tables for the NIAD studio.

this, therefor, never will have been... (never more on earth)
this, therefor, never will have been... (we two together)

2008, gouache on found painting

Colter Jacobsen lives and works in San Francisco and Ukiah, California.
Jacobsen uses a distinctive collection of found source material to create meticulous drawings, watercolors, and installations that often incorporate found ephemera to explore memory and reflection that is activated by his fascination with finding, or creating, matched pairs of objects.

this, therefor, never will have been... was exhibited as a part of a larger installation of found paintings at Corvi-Mora, London.

Fair Market Value $3,000 / Opening Bid Starts at $300 / Bid Increments $50

Untitled (P2415)
Marlon Mullen
28 x 26"
Acrylic on stretched canvas
Courtesy of the artist and NIAD Art Center

Marlon Mullen bases his paintings on found photographic images - mostly from lifestyle, news and contemporary art periodicals - which the artist uses as a departure point for his subsequent work.
In the process of developing a painting Mullen's original magazine pages usually become obscured, or literally abstracted, where an image is subsequently reduced to a graphic schema of interlocking colors and forms. Mullen's works lives within the multiple histories of 20th century modernism, while remaining highly personal.
Mullen's work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial in New York as well as in SFMOMA's SECA Art Awards exhibition. Although Marlon Mullen creates his work at NIAD Art Center, he is represented exclusively by JTT in New York and Adams and Ollman in Oregon.

Fair Market Value $3,200 / Opening Bid Starts at $1,500 / Bid Increments $100

Between a Rock and a Soft Place
Color Print, 2019
20x30", unframed
Courtesy of the artist

Using sculpture, video, and socially engaged practices, Cara Levine explores the intersections of the physical, metaphysical, traumatic, and illusionary. A 2012 MFA graduate from CCA, Levine's work has been presented around the world from the Tenderloin Museum and the Marciano Foundation to institutions in Reykjavik and Kyoto, and her collaborative social practice work "This Is Not A Gun" was recently presented as a part of the For Freedoms Congress at MOCA LA. She was the organizer of the first annual Self-Taught Artists Fair with Public Annex in Portland, and was a longtime facilitator at Creative Growth in Oakland, as well as a former substitute at NIAD Art Center!

"I made this group of images after the news of Alton Sterling's violent murder in the driver's seat of his car. I think the imagery of his murder was in the zeitgeist, and in my subconscious ... As soon as these images were complete, I felt I made them after him." - Cara Levine

Fair Market Value $1,500 / Opening Bid Starts at $100 / Bid Increments $25

Sahar Khoury, Fruit Bowl
Ceramic, Leather, Mesh, Acrylic, 2020
Courtesy of the artist

Based in Oakland, CA, Sahar Khoury works mostly with found or rejected materials to produce sculptures and installations in paper/textile mache, concrete, ceramic, steel, and silk-screen. Recently Khoury's work has been presented at SFMOMA as a recipient of the SECA Award, and at OMCA, Wattis Institute, BAM/PFA, Rebecca Camacho Presents, and CANADA (NY).

Fair Market Value $2,500 / Opening Bid Starts at $300 / Bid Increments $50

Alicia McCarthy
Untitled Drawing, 2020
11x14", framed
Courtesy of the artist

Alicia McCarthy transforms found wood surfaces into bursts, geometric blocks of color, and woven patterns often emphasized by text and spray paint. Collections including works by McCarthy include MIMA Brussels, Facebook, and Oakland Museum of California, and recent exhibitions include Wexner Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, and Jack Hanley Gallery.

Fair Market Value $3,600 / Opening Bid Starts at $300 / Bid Increments $50

John Casey
Rosie
Pencil and Colored Pencil on Paper, 2019
11x14", framed

Courtesy of the artist

John Casey started inventing creatures as soon as he was able to hold a crayon. Surreal and psychological figurative painting, drawing, and sculpture constitute his material processes. Included in the collections of the DeYoung, diRosa, and Artotheque de Caen, France. He has exhibited from Boston, Portland, LA, and the Bay Area to France, Germany, and Denmark.

Fair Market Value $800 / Opening Bid Starts at $100 / Bid Increments $25

Masako Miki
Participation to Mysticism, 2015
Risograph Print, 8.5 x 11"
Courtesy of the artist

Born in Osaka, Masako Miki lives and works in Berkeley, CA, teaching at UC Berkeley, DeAnza College, and Evergreen Valley College. She completed residencies at the DeYoung Museum, Facebook, and in Tokushima, Japan. She has exhibited at BAM/PFA's Matrix Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum, Wassaic Project-New York, and NIAD Art Center.

Fair Market Value $100 / Opening Bid Starts at $100 / Bid Increments $25

Rainbow, 2017
Aquatint with airbrushed paper on
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 40" x 29"
Paper size 40" x 29"

Framed
Edition of 25

Courtesy of Paulson Fontaine Press

David Huffman's paintings stage allegories of the black American experience. His paintings depict stereotypical signifiers of this history. Landscapes of futuristic dreams or nightmares are always handled with humor. His abstract narratives are layered with references to music, politics and art history. Huffman studied in New York and San Francisco and has an MFA from California College of the Arts. He received a Eureka Fellowship in 2007, an ARTADIA Foundation Award in 2006, and a Palo Alto Public Arts Commission Award in 2005. His work has appeared in Art Forum, Art Journal, Art Papers, Frieze, Flash Art, Vibe, NY Arts, What's On in London, the San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times and is included in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Oakland Art Museum, CA among others.

Fair Market Value $3,500 / Opening Bid Starts at $1,200 / Bid Increments $100

Artist Multiples Tote!

Silkscreened at NIAD by Raven Harper, this Martin Luther King, Jr tote includes:

• Publications by: Karen May, Heather Copus, Christine Wong Yap, and NIAD's studio.
• Marlon Mullen SECA catalogue
• Felicia Griffin featured in Wolfman Quarterly
• Artwork multiples by: Sara Malpass, Christine Wong Yap, John Casey, and Felicia Griffin
• Series of NIAD greeting cards
• NIAD apron

Artworks included in this tote span collaborative, printmaking, and social practices between NIAD artists and NIAD's wider community.

Felicia Griffin, Karen May, Heather Copus, Marlon Mullen, Sara Malpass, and Raven Harper are NIAD studio artists.

Christine Wong Yap facilitated the project '100 Stories of Belonging' in collaboration with NIAD artists and many others as a Haas Institute Fellow.

Artist John Casey served as a NIAD Board Member from 2009 - 2018, and we are grateful for his presence as an Art World Sponsor and Win Win 8 event volunteer!

Fair Market Value $250 / Opening Bid Starts at $50 / Bid Increments $25

Untitled by Saul Algeria
Acrylic on canvas, 2019
40 x 40"

Saul likes animals and video games. But, really, who doesn't? What makes Saul different from you and I though is he's able to get his obsessions down rather quickly and beautifully on paper. Although Saul's watercolors are hugely popular he also works in ceramics, creating mostly icons found in, yes, video games.

Untitled by Mireya Betances
Mixed media on canvas, 2018
16 x 20"

Mireya Betances sorts through her environment for images and text to use in her work. Whether it's an ad in a magazine or a completed drawing from another artist all is fair play. Mireya's work is mimetic in nature, but the results - often with essential letters missing or the scale out of whack - are uniquely hers.

Untitled by Lisa Blevens
Embroidery on unprimed, stretched canvas, 2019
26 x 24"

Lisa Blevens frequently peppers her figurative work to overflowing with brightly colored hearts, bunnies, stars and flowers floating on minimal fields of color. The maximalism of her images gives an early impression of abstraction.

Untitled by Deatra Colbert
Graphite on paper, 2018
8 x 6"

Deatra Colbert shows her fandom of sports entertainment primarily on paper, though she works across numerous media. Her drawings obsessively detail the goings-on of her favorite athlete/actors. Buried within the dense schemata of her works are names, phrases and important dates from various match-ups. And like professional wrestling, Deatra's works are a lively celebration of the continuing battle between good and evil.

Untitled by Julio Del Rio
Acrylic on canvas, 2017
30 x 30"

Julio Del Rio's work depicts a small militia of powerful and strange, sometimes humanoid, figures (often ceramic, but frequently seen on paper or canvas as well). Some are based on modern and post-modern sculptures by the likes of Jeff Koons or Georg Condo. Many of the figures sport a skin etched with text or symbols, creating a connection back in time with the terracotta warriors of ancient China. But, unlike the uniform drabness of the funerary sculptures, Del Rio's pieces are painted and glazed in a burst of colors.

Untitled by Luis Estrada
Mixed media on canvas, 2019
30 x 30"

Upon first encounter with Luis Estrada's work it is evident that the artist is obsessed with the weather. His paintings and drawings are peppered with meteorological symbols and diagrams. One quickly notices that entangled among the weather forecast is information about the local train systems - freight and transit - as well as images from professional wrestling. The works seem to be one man's attempt at grappling with and controlling the quotidian deluge of information cast at us.

Untitled by Sylvia Fragoso
Glazed ceramics, 2017
11 x 12 x 11"

The ceramics and drawings of Sylvia Fragoso exude a vitality, sincerity and reverence that reflect the deep care that went into their creation, and the many years that the artist has single-mindedly dedicated to her craft. Sylvia started making art in her early twenties after joining NIAD. Over the last thirty years she has produced hundreds of clay sculptures: spiritually-inspired monuments that possess a humble beauty and strange power; mysterious clusters with crucifixes atop them that testify to her devout Catholicism, and crumbling towers, some with spiky projections jutting out from their thickly glazed exteriors.

Untitled by Felicia Griffin+Michael Bailey
Acrylic on canvas, 2019
24 x 24"

Felicia Griffin began creating at NIAD at age 22 in 1985. Proficient and prolific in numerous art mediums - from printmaking to painting to sculpture - her work uses an economy of materials, while featuring a rhythm and vibrancy all her own.

While Michael Bailey's time at NIAD was short, his friendship - and collaboration - with Felicia Griffin yielded ethereal color field paintings in which their conversation takes visual form.

Untitled by Raven Harper
Acrylic on canvas, 2019
30 x 40"

Raven Harper's work explores the African American experience. In ceramics or fiber, Harper captures likenesses of Tupac and his mother, Smokey Robinson and Rosa Parks, connecting her present with a glorious and sometimes overlooked past.

Untitled by Nathan Lam
Graphite on paper, signed and dated by artist on verso, 2019
13 x 19"

Untitled by Julie MacDonald
Graphite on paper on wood panel, 2016
9 x 12 x 1.5"

Julie MacDonald's work is exploration of contemporary abstraction, whether it's the gridded quilt-like patterns of her Mission School-influenced geometric drawings or her more psychedelic, but equally vibrant meanderings in ceramics.

Life by Sara Malpass
Glazed ceramics, 2017
8 x 4 x .5"

Sara Malpass' works, particularly the daily lists on notebook paper, isolate an exploration of written language in visual art that is uncommon in that of mainstream contemporary artists, but prominent in the works of so-called outsiders. Her reductive, pragmatic language most often culls words from her current reading material or immediate interests, her piles of lists culminating as a living personal archive central to her prolific creative practice.

Untitled by Erika Martinez
Wallhanging of mixed media, fabric and embroidery, 2017
19 x 24"

Although often figurative in nature, Erica Martinez' work features a flatness of space first espoused by Picasso. Her portrait paintings sport a vibrant palette that seems to blast the image off of any intended picture plane.

Untitled (P1000) by Karen May
Mixed media on found painting, 2019
24 x 18"

Karen May's work is almost funerary in nature, seeking to recapture the memories of her past. For more than a half-century May lived with her mother and father and memories of this seemingly idyllic time tend to haunt her work. Her paintings are often depictions of the home they shared. Her sculptures are recreations of her family.

Angela Davis by Halisi Noel-Johnson
Linocut print, open edition, 2017
15 x 22"

Halisi Noel-Johnson's work - primarily in figurative printmaking - captures images of well-known African American icons and personalities. Recently, she has crafted likenesses of former president Obama and poet Maya Angelou.

Wallhanging by Maria Radilla
Found fabric and thread, 2017
23 x 23"

Radilla's work is partly surreal - strange images floating on fields of color - and partly a celebration of her heritage - colorful birds and rejoicing burros. But, mainly her work is amazing.

Untitled by Dorrie Reid
Acrylic on canvas, 2019
20x30"

Drawing inspiration from diverse interests - including animals and the environment, identity, family history, and civil rights activism, Dorrie Reid's disarming works reflect a joyful approach to art-making. Endlessly imaginative, her artistic practice becomes a natural extension of memory and personal experience. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Dorrie Reid was first introduced to art-making early on in school, primarily through drawing. Reid has worked across a wide range of media over the past two decades. Recurring themes for Reid are significant seasons and times of year, as well as numerous iterations of the Black Panther slogan "All Power to the People," realized as text-based prints, drawings, and elaborate quilts.

Reid's first solo exhibition opens in May at Kapp Kapp Projects in Philadelphia.

Untitled by Shantae Robinson
Acrylic on canvas, 2016
24 x 36"

Oh man, does Shantae Robinson know how to use color. Her abstract paintings and drawings - often based on a grid structure - come alive with color, seeming to emit some sort of life vibrations.

Untitled by Jesus Salas
Acrylic on canvas, 2019
12 x 12"

Jesus Salas documents the interior of the bus that brings him to Art Center in graphite and sometimes marker on a found sheet of paper. Less frequently, and on the flip side of the page, he captures the exterior of the bus. And recently, he has begun to create paintings sporting a minimalist field covered atop with the numbers one to one hundred. Often the numerals become unclear or blurred due Salas' hurried layering.

Untitled by Tre'von Silva
Mixed media on canvas, 2019
24 x 18"

Tre'von Silva creates striking abstract paintings and works on paper. Whether his work layers gestural brushstrokes or torn paper collage elements, the immediacy and lyricality of his pieces have drawn a devoted audience even though Silva is just completing his second year of studio practice at NIAD.

Untitled (Trio) by Shana Harper
Ink on stained, stretched canvas, 2020
Three panels of 16 x 20" each

Over the last decade, Shana Harper has built an extensive body of prints often of a lyrical and floral design. Her leadership in NIAD's wider neighborhood - facilitating workshops at local libraries as well as at NIAD's neighbors, DPRC - has underscored Harper's position as an artist dedicated to her craft and to her community.

Untitled (Guitar) by Jonathan Velazquez
Mixed media, 2019
38 x 16 x 12"

Jonathan Velazquez's work - both on paper, canvas and in performance - explores the possibilities of celebrity, with the razor like observations of a chameleon. He creates work focusing and transmuting the obsessive qualities of pop music fandom into art objects and performances. Velasquez crafts his numerous artistic personas from musicians and bands that he connects with on various levels - his slate of performers includes Michael Jackson as well as Espinosa Paz, Los Tigres and Daddy Yankee.

Velasquez's performance work will be included in an upcoming exhibition this June at Richmond Art Center.

(Lamp) by Jeremy Burleson
Rolled paper, glue, paint and marker, 2020
29 x 10 x 11"

With masking tape and paper, Jeremy Burleson has built a flood of highly detailed medical instruments - hyper-realistic and quasi-workable versions of stethoscopes, ventilators and syringes. Burleson also works out his interest in all things medical on paper, often combining figures with rows of bottles, syringes and balloons. It's unclear where his obsession stems from, but it's obvious that his focus on medically related subject matter walks a fine line between fascination and repulsion.